scholarly journals Art Museum Dining: The History of Eating Out at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
Irina Mihalache
Keyword(s):  
American Art ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eating Out ◽  
Culinary History ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Culinary Culture

Using archival materials from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), this article recreates the culinary history of the art museum and advocates for the inclusion of food in the literature on art museum history and practice. The AGO, like many other North American art museums, has a rich culinary history, which started with dining events organized by volunteer women’s committees since the 1940s. These culinary programs generated a culinary culture grounded in gourmet ideologies, which became the grounds for the first official eating spaces in the museum in the mid-1970s. Awareness of the museum’s culinary history offers an opportunity to liberate the museum from prescriptive theoretical models which are not anchored in institutional realities; these hide aspects of gender and class which become visible through food narratives.KeywordsArt museum restaurants, culinary programming, women’s committees, multisensorial museums, Art Gallery of Ontario

scholarly journals A full catalogue and analysis of a collection of postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario depicting scenes of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Piitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Commercial Photography ◽  
The City ◽  
Photographic Imagery ◽  
The Way

This applied thesis is focused on the full cataloguing and contextualizing of a collection of one hundred and sixteen postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depicting scenes of Toronto a the beginning of the twentieth century. Twenty-seven publishers representing international, national and regional manufacturers are identified with their imprint on the verso of the postcard. The applied thesis includes a literature survey discussing a rationale for the cataloguing of postcards, as well as a brief overview of the history of postcards and the history of the urbanization of the City of Toronto. A description and analysis of the AGO postcards provides information about the production cycle of postcards, the scope of commercial photography and the dissemination of photographic imagery in Toronto. The thesis also examines the way images were altered in the production cycle and the manner in which photographers and publishers exchanged photographs intended for postcard production.

scholarly journals A full catalogue and analysis of a collection of postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario depicting scenes of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Piitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Commercial Photography ◽  
The City ◽  
Photographic Imagery ◽  
The Way

This applied thesis is focused on the full cataloguing and contextualizing of a collection of one hundred and sixteen postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depicting scenes of Toronto a the beginning of the twentieth century. Twenty-seven publishers representing international, national and regional manufacturers are identified with their imprint on the verso of the postcard. The applied thesis includes a literature survey discussing a rationale for the cataloguing of postcards, as well as a brief overview of the history of postcards and the history of the urbanization of the City of Toronto. A description and analysis of the AGO postcards provides information about the production cycle of postcards, the scope of commercial photography and the dissemination of photographic imagery in Toronto. The thesis also examines the way images were altered in the production cycle and the manner in which photographers and publishers exchanged photographs intended for postcard production.

Decolonizing the Colony: Challenges to Systemic Change in the American Art Museum

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-229
Author(s):  
Andrew Mcclellan
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
The Face ◽  
Physical Spaces

This article seeks to identify impediments to, as well as opportunities for, change in American art museums in the face of demands for social justice and greater inclusivity. Focusing specifically on the representation of American art in well-established encyclopaedic museums, I argue that inherited collections and taxonomies, mapped onto the physical spaces of museums, limit the speed and degree to which aesthetic priorities, values and narratives may adapt in order to meet shifting demographics and visitor expectations. In effect, the challenge for many museums is to confront and navigate an institutionalized form of white supremacy baked into their intellectual and material foundations. I end by analysing several recent strategies that have aimed at dismantling conventions and complicating the canon.

scholarly journals Photographic retouching: the press picture editor's "invisible" tool 1930-1939 : a study of retouched press prints from the Art Gallery of Ontario's British Press Agencies Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Verbin
Keyword(s):  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Press ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario

Photographic Retouching investigates the mediatory work of the news picture editor during the 1930s. It considers what retouched press photographs add to the history of modern photojournalism, and offers a re-examination of the historiography of 1930s press photography. A descriptive analysis of sixteen representative, retouched photographs from the Art Gallery Of Ontario (AGO) British Press Agencies Collection (BPAC) and ten corresponding newspaper and magazine page spreads from the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Dispatch and Life is carried out in conjecture with press photography manuals published between the years 1930 and 1939. A literature survey, methodology section and description of the BPAC provide introductory contextual and historical information. Chapters 4 and 5, the main analytical sections, focus on two aspects of retouching: the technical difficulties that afflicted press photography during the 1930s and how retouching was employed as a corrective tool; and the ways in which retouching was utilized to strengthen and improve upon the photograph’s ability to consistently convey a clear and visually efficient narrative for use by the press.

scholarly journals Toward Evaluating Art Museum Education at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Chalas
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Museum Education ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Internal Evaluation ◽  
Art Museum Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Education Field

Abstract: Over the past three decades, the museum education field has seen a rise in the frequency of program evaluation. In this paper, I convey little known information about program evaluation at the Art Gallery of Ontario by presenting my findings from an interview I conducted with Judy Koke, the gallery’s Chief of Public Programming and Learning. Our discussion highlights both the barriers the AGO has faced on their journey toward evaluating programmatic value and the strategies the gallery has employed in an effort to enhance its internal evaluation efforts. A brief overview of program evaluation in museums provides the background to this discussion. KEYWORDS: Art museum education; Program evaluationRésumé: Le domaine de la pédagogie muséale a connu au cours des trois dernières décennies un essor quant au nombre d’évaluations de programmes. Je transmets ici le peu de renseignements connus sur l’évaluation des programmes au Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario (AGO), au terme d’une entrevue que j’ai menée avec Judy Koke, directrice de l’apprentissage et de la programmation à l’intention du public au Musée. Notre discussion met en évidence tant les obstacles rencontrés par l’AGO dans le cadre de l’évaluation de la valeur des programmes que les stratégies utilisées par le musée pour rehausser ses activités internes d’évaluation. Un bref aperçu de l’évaluation des programmes dans les musées met notre discussion en contexte.MOTS CLES: Éducation musée d'art; évaluation du programme.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jorge Duany
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Cuban American ◽  
Volume Editor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Florida International University ◽  
Diasporic Identities

Volume editor Jorge Duany briefly reviews the intellectual history of Cuban thought on national identity since the late eighteenth century. Several generations of Cuban writers and artists on the island and abroad have drawn the contours of their “moveable nation,” according to different historical junctures, geographic locations, and ideological perspectives. Duany notes that the search for and affirmation of Cuba’s national identity strongly shaped the history of the visual arts, as well as literature, music, and other cultural expressions. The author then explains the origins of the current volume in an interdisciplinary 2017 conference on Cuban and Cuban-American art held at the Frost Art Museum of Florida International University in Miami. The second part of the introduction summarizes the contents of the volume, highlighting the significance of Cuban and Cuban-American art for the construction of national and diasporic identities.

Palaces for the People: A Social History of the American Art Museum

1980 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Carol Herselle Krinsky ◽  
Nathaniel Burt
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of
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